Dodge City times. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1876-1892, 1887-01-13

Mass, recently completed the sale of tn,
Hoosac tunnel, with its accompanying forty
four miles of railroad, to the Fitchbur.
Railroad Company. The State is to receiv,
q, 0OO, 900 in ffty-year bonds, paying inter
est at three per cent. for five years, thre,
and half per cent for the next five ant
| four per cent. thereafter and $500, coo il
common stock.
HAZzAN II. WHEEL, assignee of Maftii
Kalbfeisch & Sons, of New York, filed thu
| schedules OF the firm a short time ago in the
Court of Common Pleas. They show liabil
tiles of S65s, l16, with contingent liabilities
OF $97, 4S3, or total of S775, 900 with nominal
assets amounting to $37S, S93.
ARMOUR & Co.. the well known packers
of Chicago and Kansas City, through thei,
agent at w ashington were recently awarded
the contract for furnishing 137, 600 pounds
of bacon at the Pawpee Indian Agency a,
81 cents per pound.
SEvESTr-FIvE glass manufacturers, rep
resenting all sections of the country, met
in Pittsburgh, Pa, a short time ago and
formed the American Association of Flint
and Lime Glass Manufacturers There was
no discussion of prices or wages.
THE gate keepers of the military prison
at Madrid, Spain, recently 6ecamped with
some fugitive sergeants, Of whom there
were nine. No trace of them can be found.
The escape caused sensation, giving evil
dence of intrigues by the revolutionary
party.
TELEGRAMs Of a recent date from Mendoza,
Argentine Republic, said that there were
four cases of cholera in the city and nine
teen in the hospital. The hospital patients
are persons from the country. The cpl
demic continued to decline.
ANOTHER strike was recently threatened
on the lines of the Brooklyn City and the
Broadway street railway lines, owing to the
position taken by Presidents Lewis and
Beers in the matter of time tables.
THE wages question at the Edgar Thomp-
son steel works at Pittsburgh, Pa, has
been finally settled by the arbitration COM
mittee, and work will be resumed in all de-
partments. The new scale advances wages
on general average ten per cent. These
works employ over 1900 men.
THE Government expected to begin pre-
liminary proceedings against the Bell Tele-
phone COmpanvin Boston in a short time.
A WASHINGTON special lately said that
the names Of Congressman holding "calls"
on Union Pacific would soon be published,
and there was much alarm in certain cir
cles. 1t was rumored that over 1900, 600
can be traced to members as having been
paid by the railroad to secure the passage
of the Funding bill. One Congressman is
said to have received S250,OOO.
IN the criminal court at st. Louis on the
7th, counsel for Fotheringham applied for
a reduction of his clients bail. He was in
dicted on two charges, and the court fixed
the bail in each case at $500. The original
amount was $4,000, $4,000 in each case
RECENT dispatch said that an epidemic
Of smallpox was feared in Brooklyn and
that vigorous course of action was being
applied.
A CONSTRUCTION train on on the Alabama
& Great Southern railroad, near Chatta-
nOOga, Tenn, recently struck COW, left
the rails, went down an embankment and
was wrecked, the engineer and fireman be-
ing killed.
A RECENT Ottawa, Ont, special said that
several important cases of smuggling were
being settled by the Minister of Customs.
They involved several New York and Chi
,ago houses.
A PECULIAR case was begun in the Su-
Derior Court at Boston on the It'll, being the |
suit of Maurice s. Fitzgerald, Catholic |
clergyman, against Archbishop Williams,
% recover damages for being. as he claims, |
deposed from his ,sition. The |
Archbishop, upon charges Of immortality, |
ordered him into seclusion and meditation. |
He declined to obey and was suspended.
IT wa lficially stated q short time ago |
hat 4O5 persons were burned to death in |
he incendiary fire which destroyed the re-
erved enclosure in the Peoples Park at |
Madras, India.
THE lunacy proceedings instituted by |
'rof. Emmons against Weltha A. EN- |
mons, his wife, were continued in the old |
ircuit court room at Washington on the |
tn. There was such pressure for admit
ance that the deputy marshal was obliged |
o close the door and refused entrance to |
IL who wer e not in some way connected |
With the case.
WILLIAM EARL, proprietor Of the largest
ider mills in New Jersey, committed sui
ide recently at his place near Newark, by
angling himself.
THE annual banquet Of the Jackson Club,
4 celebration of the birthday of Andrew
ackson, was held at Columbus, O., on the
light of the 7th. Judge Thurman, Con-
Lawler and other leading Demo-
rats made speeches.
1T was reported short time ago that the
olice of New York were going to dig a
rench six feet deep, twelve feet wide and
fly feet long in search Of woman who
'as supposed to have been murdered by
er husband.
ADDITIONAL DISPATCHES.
RECENTLY A. Caruthers, David Porter
nd John ThurstOn started to walk to st.
aul, Mimi, from Coal Mine, twelve miles
orth. Caruthers only arrived alive, the
Their two being frozen to death.
THE coal dealers in New York City re-
emily advanced the price of coal, as the
rticle was getting scarce in consequence
the strike of the coal handlers.
AT the Glendon stone quarries, near
aston. Pa, five chambers, 200 feet long
nd sixty feet high, were recently filled
18th twenty-five and half tons of giant
owder and exploded by electricity, dis.
acing a mass of rock estimated at 100000
500, 900 tons.
REV. FATHER STUMPE, pastor Of ST. AIMS
hurch, New York, disappeared short
me ago with large amount of money
Used by the church for the purpose Of
Getting new building.